Black composers and experiences in Bach Festival’s spotlight (Orlando Sentinel)

By Matthew J. Palm
ORLANDO SENTINEL ARTS WRITER

From moments of great pain will come great music. Aspects of the African American experience are at the fore of the next Bach Festival Society concert, in collaboration with the Bethune-Cookman University Concert Chorale.

Slavery and the killings of unarmed Black men, including Sanford’s Trayvon Martin, are explored musically in “Elation and Dissent,” which will be presented April 23-24 at Rollins College in Winter Park. “The Ordering of Moses” — about the exodus of the Jews from captivity — also is on the program, as is a new piece written as a response to the war in Ukraine.